Pass Program

Specialties

The PASS Program was started almost twenty years ago here in Champaign, Illinois. The objective was to establish a place where any medical student could come to in order to truly understand medical information, beginning with the basic medical sciences. We wanted an environment in which a student felt no shame, no loss of pride, and no humiliation for the academic difficulties that he or she had suffered. I wanted to provide students with the academic support that they needed. And, in doing so, we wanted to help them find the academic growth, spiritual growth, and personal growth that they would need in order to develop into outstanding physicians of the future. We wanted them to look forward to, rather than to fear, the future.

History

Established in 1996.

Dr. Francis Ihejirika, MD., Founder and CEO, was very blessed in his residency to have met two outstanding physicians who helped him develop his mind, develop a stronger desire to be an excellent physician, and develop a much clearer understanding of the basic medical sciences and how to apply it to endless clinical situations. They helped him understand the «how» and the «why» of medical knowledge. In short, they made him think until thinking became fun, they made him learn until learning became fun, and they made him understand what he had learned, until understanding knowledge became his only goal. Now, with each session we conduct at the PASS Program, the aim is to pass on the knowledge, the understanding, and especially the excitement that these two men helped him discover and develop.

When PASS Program began in 1996, we were told that only 30% of foreign medical students pass their exams each year. The PASS Program achieved a 90% pass rate for these students in no time flat. We